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Can you identify these birds based on a picture?
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First submittedMarch 16, 2018
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43 Comments
tschutzer
+5
Level 93
Mar 16, 2018
Glad to see this is the expurgated version (the one without the gannet).
ctleng76
+1
Level 65
Sep 19, 2018
Bookshop!!!
IsleAuHaulte
+8
Level 92
Aug 10, 2019
What's wrong with a gannet?
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 89
Dec 24, 2024
I don't like them; they wet their nests.
Jeremy
+1
Level 79
Mar 16, 2018
I could have sworn that falcon was a Mississippi kite!
Malbaby
+6
Level 70
Sep 19, 2018
The Brown Falcon in Australia has a dark 'teardrop' under it's eye as a distinguishing feature:
sulfuratus
+6
Level 71
Sep 19, 2018
Exactly. This isn't a falcon. In addition to the missing teardrop mark this bird has yellow legs and a white iris (Brown falcons have grey legs and brown irides). There are also differences in posture and overall shape but they're harder to describe. But however you look at it, the depicted bird isn't a falcon (and not a Mississippi kite either). It's probably some kind of hawk.
kiwiquizzer
+7
Level 68
Sep 19, 2018
I love blue-footed boobies!
Sifhraven
+9
Level 76
Jul 11, 2019
Wow that is what robin look like over in america??? look nothing like they look here, it looks more like a colored blackbird. While european robins look more like em well tits.

Maybe they just took the name and are not in any way related?

Ah looked it up and seems like I am correct the american robin is, like the blackbird a thrush (turdidae family). So in the same family. The european robin is an old world flycatcher (Muscicapidae)

cledun2
+6
Level 95
Feb 17, 2022
The American Robin is a different genus entirely
DocEckleburg
+3
Level 68
Feb 10, 2025
The American robin is a true thrush, presumably early European settlers gave it the robin name because of the redbreast connection, despite it not really looking like it's European namesake in any other way.
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Feb 10, 2025
I got them all except the fake robin. Tried lots of things, but as it clearly isn't a robin, but a red-breasted thrush, didn't try the real answer.

Would we have been better off another bird with a breast word in it's title?

Jango
+2
Level 63
Feb 23, 2022
So disappointed that the auks were not flying penguins!
Quagga50
+1
Level 81
Apr 1, 2023
Apparently I missed "Learn what a Kingfisher looks like" Day at school because I had no idea, and a lot of people got that one correct.
Freestatebear
+1
Level 88
Dec 12, 2024
Maybe - I knew it, even though I don't think I've ever actually seen one.
drinkBeerBeFree
+1
Level 49
Aug 13, 2024
Could you accept "Sulid" for the booby? I knew the German name (Toelpel) and just looked it up in the dictionary
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Dec 11, 2024
Accept just 'comorant'?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 12, 2024
Cormorant
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Dec 12, 2024
Shag!
sjj93gg
+1
Level 55
Feb 13, 2025
Not tonight, I've got a headache.
sumguy
+19
Level 87
Dec 11, 2024
A tit and a booby in the same quiz?
InterAlia
+2
Level 83
Feb 10, 2025
Lucky you!
WillemLAif
+1
Level 81
Nov 11, 2025
And a woodpecker, but who am I to judge.
SpartanLlama
+5
Level 79
Dec 12, 2024
Crazy how 2 of these are subject to the same joke
stylus
+1
Level 79
Dec 12, 2024
can't believe i missed spoonbill. it's just sort of "say what you see"
buck1017
+5
Level 78
Dec 12, 2024
Tits and boobies. Ornithologists are apparently a bunch of pubescent boys haha
JackBeNimble
+1
Level 82
Dec 13, 2024
I often hear both "rock dove" and "pigeon," but I've never heard one called a "rock pigeon" before. Is it a US term?
LaScoot
+3
Level 69
Dec 14, 2024
Are tits and chickadees the same thing? I kept trying to guess chickadee and was going insane thinking I spelled it wrong.
GreenFriday
+1
Level 87
Dec 19, 2024
Could "Shag" be accepted for "Cormorant"?

From Wikipedia, "No consistent distinction exists between cormorants and shags"

Here in New Zealand at least they're all called shags: https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/black-shag

TheMightyQ
+1
Level 86
Dec 19, 2024
I was so sure that was a macaroni penguin, but alas, they are indeed different. TMYK
jacobgoldman07
+1
Level 44
Feb 6, 2025
i love to see some great tits!
shape816
+1
Level 68
Feb 10, 2025
I can't believe I guessed booby but not tit. I'm slipping
DocEckleburg
+1
Level 68
Feb 10, 2025
Do comments get deleted off?

I could have sworn that this quiz had a picture of a goshawk on it mislabelled as a brown falcon for years. Now it's gone, which is great, but the discussion about the mistake in the comments seems to have been purged too.

assesoffire
+2
Level 42
Feb 10, 2025
When I say "Ornith" you say "ologist"
lildbo
+1
Level 43
May 12, 2025
sybau💔
sulfuratus
+1
Level 71
Feb 10, 2025
Glad to see the “falcon” picture got replaced by something else, although it seems the cormorant picture is wrong now (I think that's new?) – the picture shows a white-breasted cormorant. I think the confusion comes from the fact that it was submitted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards titled “Great Cormorant Dry-Off”, but I don't think that's supposed to be a species ID since the caption explicitly calls it a white-breasted cormorant.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Feb 10, 2025
Fixed the cormorant.
Remster
+4
Level 81
Feb 10, 2025
The American robin would look rubbish on a Christmas card.
loempia
+1
Level 43
Feb 11, 2025
I don't know enough English for this.
tizzlizz
+1
Level 66
Feb 12, 2025
Is there a way to put audio into quizzes? It would help to hear the calls
KaMa3
+1
Level 30
Feb 13, 2025
Yes, those are definetly birds
mOctave
+1
Level 66
Jul 8, 2025
Hmm... chickadee for great tit?

Technically wrong, but same family of birds with the only difference being they have a different range.

Dextersniff
+1
Level 22
Mar 24, 2026
grey parrot has lost its image
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